
Yr Athro Erminia Calabrese
STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow
- calabresee@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 5031
- N/0.27, Adeiladau'r Frenhines, 5 The Parade, Heol Casnewydd, Caerdydd, CF24 3AA
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I am a cosmologist using observations of the relic light from the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), to constrain the properties of the Universe.
Here at Cardiff, I am an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Lecturer working between the Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Astonomy Instrumentation groups.
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Career Overview
- 2017-date STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow and Lecturer - Cardiff University (UK)
- 2016-17 STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow - University of Oxford (UK)
- 2015-16 Lyman Spitzer Jr. Fellow - Princeton University (USA)
- 2014-15 Beecroft Fellow - University of Oxford (UK)
- 2011-14 PDRA in astrophysics and cosmology - University of Oxford (UK)
College Positions
- 2013-17 Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford (UK)
- 2011-17 Research Member at the Exeter College, Oxford (UK)
Education
- 2008-11 PhD in Astronomy - Sapienza, Universita` di Roma (Ita)
- 2006-08 Master (MSc) in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Sapienza, Universita` di Roma (Ita)
- 2003-06 Bachelor (BSc) in Physics and Astrophysics - Sapienza, Universita` di Roma (Ita)
Awards
- 2016 STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship
- 2012 Junior Research Fellowship (non-stipendiary), Wolfson College, Oxford
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2011 Tito Maiani prize for thesis in physics
Professional services
- Refereeing
- Reviewer for PRD, PRL, JCAP, ApJ, MNRAS, A&A
- Speaking Engagement
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I get regular invitations to give seminars, colloquia and conference/workshop talks. Over the last 7 years I have spoken at Florence, Louvain, Kings College London, Leiden, EPFL-Lausanne, UCL-London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Sussex, Cambridge, Queen Mary-London, Crete, Oxford, Imperial College-London, Durham, Manchester, Amsterdam, Bielefeld, Heidelberg, SISSA-Trieste, and Bonn in Europe; and BNL/Brookhaven, Ann Arbor-Michigan, Cornell, IAS-Princeton, and Chicago in the USA.
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- Memberships of Scientific Societies
- 2016-date Member of the Cosmology and Astrophysics Network for Theoretical Advances and Training Actions (CANTATA) supported by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology
- 2015-date Member of the International Astronomical Union
- Committees
- 2017 Co-organiser of the LiteBIRD:Europe meetings (Cardiff 2017, Paris 2017, Torino 2018)
- 2017 PhD admission committee, Oxford Astrophysics
- 2016 Co-organizer (committee of 6 people) of Symposium on “CMB polarization foregrounds” at EWASS 2016, Athens, Greece
- 2016 LOC member of the LSST DESC Collaboration meeting, Oxford
- 2016 Co-organiser of the Astrophysics journal club, Oxford
- 2014 Co-organizer of the ACT Collaboration meeting, Oxford
- 2012-13 Co-organiser of the cosmology seminars, Oxford
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2013 LOC member of the “Synergetic Science with Euclid and the Square Kilometre Array” workshop, Oxford
- Outreach
- 2017 Panel member at "The Universe: What Don't We Know", the Cheltenham Science Festival, UK
- 2015-17 Interviews for Symmetry Magazine and New Scientist UK
- 2011-15 Stargazing Oxford
- 2013 Royal Societry Summer Science Exhibition, London
Cyhoeddiadau
We are currently unable to retrieve the list of publications. Visit our institutional repository.My research combines theoretical work with statistical data analysis to answer fundmantal questions about the Universe. I lead work on characterising multi-frequency CMB microwave data, on combining data from satellite and ground-based experiments, and on extracting the underlying primordial CMB signal carrying the imprint of the physics of the early Universe, leading to state-of-the-art constraints on neutrino physics, inflation, dark matter and dark energy physics.
I am a member of many CMB experiments: I am a long-standing science member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, a Scientist of the Planck mission, and a full member of the Simons Observatory for which I co-lead the "high-ell" science working group. I am an External Collaborator of the proposed, Japanese-led LiteBIRD mission for which I also serve as UK National coordinator and UK European Point of Contact.
I am also a full member of the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, and a member of the Euclid Collaboration, looking at how to combine low-redshift data with the CMB.
Supervision
I currently co-supervise Miss Christiane Lorenz at the University of Oxfrod in her PhD projects on constraining neutrino physics and dark energy with low- and high-redshift data.
During 2013-2017 I have served as Advisor for graduate students at Wolfson College, Oxford.